Start Here: How to Get Your Book Published If you want to get your book published, you have more choices than ever to accomplish your goal. This post lays out the process in the simplest terms possible. It is regularly revised and updated. There are three primary paths to getting published: Find a traditional publisher who will offer you a book contract. This post focuses on finding a traditional publisher. In a traditional publishing arrangement, publishers assume all costs and pay you an advance and royalties. Not sure if you should traditionally publish or self-publish? 4 steps to getting a book published Getting your book traditionally published is a step-by-step process of: Determining your genre or category of work. Step 1. Publishers and agents often focus or specialize on certain types of work. Novels and memoirs: Most first-time authors must finish their manuscript before approaching editors/agents. Books that are suitable for Big Five publishing Works that can be difficult to sell: Deciding If You Need an Agent Step 2.
44 Diverse Tools To Publish Student Work 44 Diverse Tools To Publish Student Work by TeachThought Staff Educators are often admonished to design work that ‘leaves the classroom.’ This is partly a push for authenticity. Work that is “real world” will naturally be more engaging to students because it has more chance to have credibility in their eyes, and usefulness in their daily lives. But work that is made public has other benefits as well. Publishing Student Work vs Assessment In lieu of its perceived art and science, assessment is a murky practice. Anything a student ‘does’ can be used as a kind of assessment. Either way, because the work is mobile and digital and easily shared, its ripe for both assessment and sharing with authentic audiences in the real world. When students publish their thinking with their right audience or collaborators at the right time, the tone and purpose of the work are able to shift dramatically. 11 Categories Of Digital Tools To Publish Student Work
Child of mine a Right-Brained Writing Prompt...Serendipitous Character Descriptions Ways to replicate this interactive prompt without using technology: It's simple; make three columns on your whiteboard or chalkboard or on chart paper, labeling them adjective, character, and phrase. Write four or five adjectives, characters, and phrases (borrowed from the button game above) to give your students a model; then, have your students work in pairs to create more words and phrases that could go in each column. When students share their ideas out loud, record the very best ones on the classroom chart. With a chart created, tell students they are to all create an original character by choosing an adjective, character, and phrase that are in different rows. So, by asking students to create a character based on words in different rows, you are not allowing them to go straight across. With the above example, an angry pirate scratching his head is an acceptable choice of a unique character because different rows are represented in the choice. Analyzing the Mentor Text:
9 Creative Storytelling Tools That Will Make You Wish You Were A Student Again -- THE Journal Learning Apps & Tools | Feature 9 Creative Storytelling Tools That Will Make You Wish You Were A Student Again By Kim Fortson10/22/12 For many students, writing a novel summary is not exactly a glamorous assignment. But writing a novel summary using a timeline-based storytelling platform with embedded original content, hyperlinks, videos, and pictures might just make developing re-cap of A Christmas Carol interesting, argues Lake Geneva Middle School language arts teacher Rob Granger. In lieu of standard re-caps, Granger asks his students to create Meographs, four-dimensional narratives that contextualize stories using maps to provide time and place references to original content. T.H.E. According to Bellow, students can share these stories with, at the very least, their peers, but also with friends and family and on social networks, “So there’s a real audience out there who can find their stories as well.” 1. 2. 3.
How news can compete with cat videos: 6 lessons for multimedia journalists Necessity is the mother of invention. That’s certainly been the case with the multimedia work I do. As senior multimedia producer at the Center for Investigative Reporting, I led digital storytelling projects for six years. We were often working with very dense, complex subjects and translating them for a younger, Web-savvy audience with a notoriously short attention span. That wasn’t easy. Breaking out of traditional journalism formats can be difficult—even unpleasant. If journalism is going to survive, it can’t be driven by formulas—especially formulas built for platforms that are losing relevance and audience. Here are some lessons I’ve learned in the last few years working in multimedia journalism: No. 1: Your dream job probably does not exist. No. 2: If you have new media ideas in an old media environment, you will probably have to fight for them. Some people at CIR didn’t understand what we were trying to do. No. 5: Obstacles provide great opportunities for innovation.
Writing Emotionally Layered Dialogue | Screenwriting Tips (Note: This article is not one that can be read breezily. I'm going to deconstruct a piece of great dialogue line by line, and label every technique that's employed. There's much to be learned by doing so, but it requires focus. Therefore, if you need Zen or caffeine or both (Zeffeine) to ratchet up your awareness, knock yourself out.) Writing dialogue that sounds natural and which is emotionally layered seems like it's something that should be easy. Below you'll some specific pointers for making your dialogue come alive. But first, some general remarks: Intuition The techniques I'll be discussing and others like them make dialogue, when read aloud in a film, sound like the way people actually speak. Space Techniques like this take up space. In an action movie, an action-thriller, or an action-comedy, the story often moves so quickly that techniques like these can't be squeezed in. An Option, Not a Requirement These techniques are optional, not a requirement. Techniques we'll see here are: 1.
33 Great Apps for Storytelling and Creativity 2013 Update… Here are the main apps I suggest for storytelling. Some of them are actual bookmaking apps, some are apps for creating stories in various ways and others are apps I would use to help kids plan out a story. Educreations FREE- (example HERE and HERE) There is also a web version of this tool StoryBuddy 2 $4.99- (example HERE and HERE) Explain Everything $2.99- (example HERE and HERE and HERE) Toontastic FREE*- (example HERE and HERE) Feltboard $2.99- (examples HERE and HERE and HERE) Skitch FREE- for labeling (example HERE and HERE) There is also a web version of this tool Popplet $4.99- (example HERE and HERE) There is a “lite” version of the app and is also web based Tellagami- FREE- Much like Voki but in app form. Write About This $3.99- creates prompts for kids and reads the prompt to them Haiku Deck FREE- easy way to create a presentation (example HERE) Doodlecast Pro $3.99 (example HERE) FYI: Everything this app offers Explain Everything can also cover Puppet Pals My Story ThingLink
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Yes, Agents Google Writers | Carly Watters, Literary Agent This is the social media elephant in the room. You don’t query in a vacuum. If you write a query letter and an agent is intrigued (congratulations!) A writer’s virtual footprint is their resume at that point. Here are my ‘online guidelines’ for writers: Make sure you have a landing page. Don’t know what social media is right for you? Tumblr: Ideal for images and short text. Twitter: Great for short thoughts and sharing links. Facebook: Perfect for integrating family and friends with your work, and sharing links that you have lengthy opinions about. Pinterest: Works for behind the scenes thinks like character sketches, world building imagery, and visual content. Do you know the optimal times to post to social media? Tumblr: Weekday evenings after 7pm-1am. Twitter: 9am-4pm weekdays. Facebook: 6am-8am, Thursday and Friday at lunch, and weekends. Pinterest: Weekend mornings and weekdays 2-5pm. There’s your checklist! Like this: Like Loading...
Beautiful web-based timeline software Braving Ebola SUAKOKO, Liberia OCT. 31, 2014 The patients arrive, at first fearful of the people in spacesuits whose faces they cannot see. They wait for test results, for the next medical rounds, for symptoms to appear or retreat. They watch for who recovers to sit in the courtyard shade and who does not. They pray. The workers offer medicine, meals, cookies and comfort. These are the people of one Ebola clinic in rural Liberia. Some of the workers will stay a few more weeks, or until the end of the year. Photo See How Easily You Can Track Your Character's Emotional Arc in a Scene Most authors try to understand what a character is feeling at a particular moment: He’s angry here. He’s happy there. Many authors also consider how the character’s emotional arc changes over the course of the entire story: He begins insecure. He ends confident. But few think about how the character’s emotional arc develops over the course of a single scene. In my research last spring, I came across a fascinating guide called Book on Acting. A character whose emotions don’t develop or change in a scene is static and not terribly interesting. 1. The simplest type of a character’s emotional arc is a change in intensity. For example, a character may feel happy in a scene, but the intensity of his happiness may change, starting at its lowest intensity as calmness and then building through contentment, pleasure, amusement, gladness, happiness, cheerfulness, giddiness, jubilation, elation, joy. Generally, it’s more powerful to show the emotional intensity increasing rather than decreasing. 2.
Una potente plataforma para contar historias gráficas Un regalo para los reporteros gráficos y periodistas de viajes. La plataforma Maptia se actualizó para ofrecer funciones simplificadas como un panel de publicación de contenidos sobre diversas aventuras con texto e imágenes. El proyecto se centra en las historias georeferenciadas, es decir, destacando la localización del colaborador. La página principal presenta una colección de piezas de alta calidad para los viajeros más frecuentes como para que te inspires en tu propio diario. Puedes navegar a través de distintos territorios con etiquetas y conocer los motivos que impulsan a a los gráficos a compartir material de cada ruta. La organización dice que pronto añadirá más herramientas de edición y que se incluirá la capacidad de separar cada historia en capítulos. El registro es rápido y el editor aparece en blanco para que puedas incluir lo que quieras: Este sitio puede ser un buen pretexto para hacer más atractivas tus experiencias. Revisa el sitio desde aquí.